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> Is adblock meaningfully different from piracy? It's not illegal to mute or look away when an ad is playing; delegating the task to a machine is the same thin
by Nextgrid 5y ago
> Is adblock meaningfully different from piracy?
It's not illegal to mute or look away when an ad is playing; delegating the task to a machine is the same thing, just more efficient.
- wutbrodo 5y agoAh I was speaking ethically, not legally. Of course, adblocking isn't illegal and piracy nominally is. As mentioned in the sibling comment, this argument-by-example is trivially extensible to piracy. "It's not unethical to watch media at a friend's house. Piracy is just using a machine to do this via a digital encoding instead of an analog one"